Jeff Burt

Qualcomm will arrive at the Mobile World Congress next week with a chipset for small cells that company officials said will enable LTE to run in the 5GHz WiFi band. Qualcomm has long been a proponent of extending LTE to the unlicensed spectrum—also known as LTE-U—as a way of giving mobile operators access to more […]

The effort to create open interoperability standards for the Internet of things has become a crowded one over the past year, with more than a half-dozen industry groups entering into the fray. Two of those groups—the Open Interconnect Consortium (IOC) and the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)—will now be working together more closely to drive interoperability. […]

IBM and Juniper Networks are partnering to help service providers and enterprises get a better understanding of what’s happening on their networks and how they can improve the end-user experience. The vendors will combine hardware and software offerings, injecting IBM’s broad analytics capabilities into Juniper’s networking gear to give communications service providers (CSPs) and businesses […]

Intel wants to make it easier for consumers to understand the low-power Atom processors that are in their mobile devices. The company is rebranding the processors to give users a clearer idea of the capabilities of the chips, which can be found in smartphones, tablets and low-power notebooks. The rebranding comes just days before the […]

The Open Platform for NFV Project, an industry consortium launched in September 2014 to accelerate the adoption of network-functions virtualization, will sponsor its first conference later this year. The OPNFV Summit, which will be hosted by the Linux Foundation, will run Nov. 11-12 in Burlingame, Calif. The group announced a call for speaking proposals Feb. […]

Hewlett-Packard reportedly is looking to boost its networking business by acquiring wireless networking vendor Aruba Networks. Citing people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg reported that the two companies are in talks about a possible acquisition, though nothing has been finalized and a deal could collapse. One unnamed source said the a deal could be […]

Chip makers Broadcom and Texas Instruments are introducing platforms designed to reduce the power consumption in smartwatches and other connected devices. Broadcom on Feb. 25 unveiled a platform aimed at reducing the power consumption of smartwatches and other devices that run Google’s Android Wear operating system for wearable devices. The platform, which will be among […]

ARM and IBM are partnering on a starter kit designed to make it easier for organizations and individuals to build connected devices for the Internet of things. The ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit-Ethernet Edition will include a development board created by Freescale and ARM’s mbed IoT operating system and will be connected to IBM’s Bluemix […]

Avaya is expanding its presence in the highly competitive SDN market with an architecture and other technologies designed to enable organizations to extend the reach of the network beyond the data center to include devices at the network edge. The company made some steps into the software-defined networking space, including unveiling a data center orchestration […]

EZchip Semiconductor, leveraging the technology it inherited when it bought Tilera last fall, is planning to put 100 ARM-based 64-bit cores into a processor aimed at a rapidly evolving networking market. EZchip officials will give details about the upcoming Tile-Mx chips Feb. 25 at the Linley Data Center Conference in San Jose, Calif. The multi-core […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials several months ago announced the company’s forthcoming “Carrizo” processors for notebooks and low-power desktops in an effort to regain momentum in a PC chip market dominated by larger rival Intel. The officials have since boasted about the significant power savings of the processors, along with longer battery life and improvements in […]

Intel engineers are coming to this year’s ISSCC conference with the message that the company’s work on 14-nanometer processor development is paying dividends, and that they can continue to meet the demands of Moore’s Law as they continue to shrink the chips over the next several years. Over three days at the International Solid-State Circuits […]